Tea Cups and Roses

A blog mostly devoted to Once Upon A Time and the beauty and complexity that is Rumbelle

[teacupsroses]

Hi, I've just discovered your DOALS series in FanFiction, but there I don't find the Chapter V and my Internet says that whitedressesinfo has a servidor problem.. so... where can I get the chapter I miss?? I love the story you wrote and I would like to reach the end of it. Thanks!

Chapter IV was never even finish - and to be honest, probably never will be due to health issues - so Chapter V doesn’t even exist.  And dresswhites.info does not exist anymore as a website - I had $0 income for two years until I finally was approved for disability - so had no money to pay for website space or the domain.

[teacupsroses]

Hello!I only recently found your fix-it' Rumbelle story and I was amazed. Ilove that your Belle actually sees beyond her own nose and is able to recognize her own mistakes (I'll never get along with how the show's authors have falsified such a promising character, having made a plot device out of her and not particularly clever one in that). But I noticed that you have not written for a long time. And I'm curious to know if you are still working on your story?

I’ve been suffering from major health issues for a while now and it has greatly interfered with my writing, as has the state of the show, especially during 6A. I plan on finishing it but I really am not sure when I will be able to. I have the chapters mapped out, but the muse is still on vacation and refusing to answer any queries as to when she will return.

[teacupsroses]

The Rumbelle Showdown blog says that you or mariequitecontrarie might be the new moderator for that event... are you planning to take over?

I have not heard anything from them in months, so that would be a question more appropriately addressed to @rumbelleshowdown.  They may have gone with Marie or maybe they made other arrangements.  I just don’t know.

[teacupsroses]

Someone thinks she is a Christmas present...

[teacupsroses]

Ernie acting like a lazy bum on a cold Thursday afternoon. I’ve been ill with a sinus infection for a while, so I didn’t get a chance to post about this last Friday, but Ernestine is now a year old. She was born on December 1, 2016.

[freifraufischer]

What do you think Regina meant with her SB line. I can see one reason she wouldn’t want to go though she’d love their help is cause she wouldn’t want to bring trouble to them. I guess we could find out for sure why that line come ep 10. I mean why curse them to since we aren’t telling their stories anymore.

My wild theory is that the curse involved some sort of time travel.  They can’t go to Storybrooke because there are already versions of them there.  And that Storybrooke can’t know that they’re in Hyperion Heights because it would change the past.

Based entirely on the fact that Henry was 10 in 2011 and it’s 2017 in Hyperion Heights.  In 2017 at 16 Henry is still in Storybrooke going to high school.

Or the writers can’t do math.

[teacupsroses]

Well, we do know the writers can’t do math. They’ve proven that time and again, which is why the show stopped being specific with its title cards, after the fans called them out one too many times on their crap math (see “Nimue” for an example).

[shipperqueen93]

I’m not crying……I’M BAWLING

[teacupsroses]

Yep...

[leni-ba]

Me during the Belle & Rumple tale.

[teacupsroses]

I’m right there with you...all the flashback feels.

[teacupsroses]

I’m a puddle...oh, that dance and music....

[abovethemists]

Whose library is that though? 

[teacupsroses]

Rumple probably built her another library.

[thestraggletag]

I thought the “HH!Hook is a clone” theory was so stupid and so far-fetched that it was even too silly for no-plot-whatsoever!OUAT… and it’s true. They did the thing. The stupid, stupid thing.

[phoenixwrites]

Explain.

[thestraggletag]

Yesterday it was revealed that the Hook we see in season 7 is not Hook, is the Hook invented by the genie lamp wish of season 6 that created the Wish realm. This Hook, somehow, for some fucking reason, appeared again yesterday (I fastforwarded, come on) and in the end got de-aged, slimmed and turned into a companion of sorts for Henry. He’s looking for a daughter he has, who for some reason winds up in our realm? Okay, writing it down makes it sound even more stupid. God.

[phoenixwrites]

that’s…uh…that’s…

THEY CAN DO THAT, BUT IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE WISH REALM TO BRING BACK NEAL?!

[teacupsroses]

Now it’s time for someone to write a thing where Neal gets brought back by the Wish Realm and stumbles into the new!EF and gets caught up in the war or whatever they’re calling it without realizing that his son is a central character in it.

[teacupsroses]

What happens next in Healing Hearts? --LadySibyl

But that would be telling!!  Lol.  Seriously, I’m trying to pick up the story again and hopping to finish it up.  Been fighting through a bad case of writer’s block and some real life issues.  I’m having surgery in a few weeks, but I’m to get a few parts out before then.

But just a little hint - the story does follow the episode “Heart of Gold” fairly closely, so so poor Rumple is about to see the last person he wants to see, leading to his second heart attack.

[teacupsroses]

Would you update your "Hearts" series? Please?

I am planning to.  Suffered a major case of writer’s black plus some real-life issues which will result in my having surgery in a few weeks.  I don’T know if I’ll be able to get anything out before surgery, but I’m going to try.

[teacupsroses]

she’s a little old to be having a baby at this point - she would be considered high risk if she’s having a baby now, so rest might at the doctor’s suggestion---- I'm sorry that's just BS. 'little too old' just sounds wrong!!! Its all about hook. hook hook hook. screw A&E

And now there are two Hooks...UGH!

But the other part is correct also and could have made a good story done in the right writer’s hands, meaning NOT A&E’s.   When Henry’s 20, which he appears to be in the flashbacks in this episode in the EF, Emma is 37/38.  They start considering expectant mother’s high risk at 35.  I had a friend who had a Downs baby at 37.  

[ishtarelisheba]

Jesus. Weaver is just… so glaringly NOT Rumpel. Even Gold had a hell of a lot of Rumpel in him. But Weaver seems to have completely obliterated that bit of Rumpel that always shined through. It’s so painful to watch. :(

Poor Henry. :(

OOH IT’S THE SWANFIRE KEYCHAIN

Just to throw some more bullshit into all this, suddenly wish!Hook has a daughter. *eyeroll*

[teacupsroses]

Given what went on with Hook, maybe it’s NOT Rumple....

[abovethemists]

So, from what I’m getting from Twitter and my dashboard, Emma has barely been in Emma’s big final episode? 

[teacupsroses]

Correct. She had a grand total of two scenes before I finally couldn’t take anymore and turned it off with 15 minutes left.

[boushh2187]

Well Rumple and Belle are “sickeningly happy” according to Regina… at this point anyway. I’ll take it.

[teacupsroses]

Probably talking about the other grandparents...